Those who are forced into being without an abode and/or dwelling are all to quickly deemed less than citizens. In many regards are even treated as less than human. How about thinking that we are NOT homeless, nor last-class citizens or non-human? We think, have feelings, have intellect and struggle. How would you feel to be thought of as anything less than human just for circumstances due to those of profit/gain/control?

Katie
Layne Quackenbush moved to Nashville to become a musician, but cops say
she put two bullets in man’s stomach after an argument over her luxury
car.

09.13.17 3:00 PM ET

A Tennessee
woman arrested Monday for allegedly shooting a homeless man after he
asked her to move her Porsche from his sleeping area has a violent past.

Katie Layne Quackenbush is accused of shooting Gerald Melton on Aug. 26 after the two argued over where she parked in Nashville.
Melton had been sleeping on a sidewalk when he “became disturbed by
exhaust fumes and loud music” from Quackenbush’s car at 3 a.m.,
according to Nashville police. The two allegedly began arguing when
Melton asked that the vehicle be moved.
Melton left the area and
did not block Quackenbush from leaving, according to the police
affidavit. The two began arguing again when he returned to the spot
where he had been trying to sleep, police said. This time Quackenbush
allegedly got out of her car with a gun and fired two shots before
getting back in her car and leaving.

Melton, 54, remains hospitalized after being shot twice in the abdomen.

This
isn’t Quackenbush’s first run-in with the law. Quackenbush was arrested
on misdemeanor domestic violence-related assault charges in Texas in
2013 that were later dismissed. Quackenbush was arrested last December
for striking a woman in the head with a drinking glass and charged with
misdemeanor assault, according to court documents.

Quackenbush’s
father, Jesse Quackenbush told The Daily Beast that she was acting in
self defense after Melton “accosted” his daughter and her friend and
threatened to kill them.

“What
you have here is a 26-year old woman whose life is basically ruined on
an international basis because of knee jerk and hillbilly cops in
Nashville that rush to judgement before they even complete their
investigation,” he said.

Quackenbush had been out with a friend in
downtown Nashville, who was an “eyewitness to this event,” Jesse said.
Since the friend’s car was parked about six blocks away from the club
they were at, Quackenbush offered to drop the friend off at her car.

They
continued to talk in Quackenbush’s car when Melton began “screaming and
yelling” explicit threats “at the top of his lungs” and threatened to
kill the two women, Jesse said. Melton then allegedly walked away to
begin yelling at another group of girls nearby.

After Melton
walked away, Jesse said his daughter took out her gun to escort the
friend to her car. When Quackenbush walked around her car Melton
allegedly began to “accost” her again. She then told Melton twice that
she had a gun and to stay away.

“He kept coming at her and
increasing the volume of his voice and she thought what she thought was a
warning shot would make him run away,” Jesse said. “She purposefully
aimed away from him but unfortunately she hit him. And he kept coming so
she shot again, again a warning shot, down at a downward trajectory and
thinking that would scare him away.”

Melton allegedly continued to come at the Quackenbush so she got back
inside her car and drove away. He said his daughter turned herself in
and has been cooperating with police since the incident.
“She was
merely trying to defend herself,” Jesse said. “She wasn’t trying to hurt
anyone to begin with, especially not trying to kill someone.”

Jesse said Quackenbush is the single mother of a 5-year old son and moved to Nashville to launch her career as a musician.

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - The News 4 I-Team obtained exclusive surveillance
video of the Music Row neighborhood where a homeless man was shot, and
it reveals many people in the area who could be potential witnesses.

The video, recorded on Aug. 26 starting at 3 a.m., shows Chet Atkins Place and its cross street, 19th Avenue South.

Police said Quackenbush, charged with attempted murder, got into an argument with Melton.
The surveillance video shows at roughly 3:19 a.m., a fire truck rushes to the scene followed by several Metro police cruisers.

But
the video shows in the minutes before police arrive, two people can be
seen walking directly from the location of the shooting, and another man
can be seen walking down Chet Atkins Place.

Several cars also
drive in that area at the same time, all indicating there could be
several witnesses to corroborate either Quackenbush or Melton’s versions
of what happened.

Metro police confirm that another witness working security in that area alerted investigators to the shooting.

The
I-Team has also obtained video of Melton, recorded in December 2016. In
the video, Melton is seen playing a guitar and singing.

The video was made by Music Row veteran Sharon Corbitt-House, who started a Youcaring page to help Melton.

“He
lived in the parking lot behind our building for about a year,”
Corbitt-House said. “I had no clue that he was as talented as he was.”

That
Youcaring page did raise more than $2,000 that Corbitt-House said
helped Melton to move into temporary housing on Murfreesboro Road. But
not long after, he was back living on the streets of Music Row.

“Did you ever find him to be volatile? Did you ever find him to be a person that would get angry quickly?” the I-Team asked.

“I
never experienced it,” Corbitt-House said. “I had a heard a couple of
people had had incidents with him where he raised his voice and had
gotten angered.”

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -
Metro police have charged a woman with attempted murder for allegedly shooting a homeless man near Music Row last month.

Police say the victim, 54-year-old Gerald Melton, was trying to sleep
on the sidewalk in the 900 block of 19th Avenue South around 3 a.m.
when he noticed exhaust fumes and loud music coming from an SUV.

Katie Layne Quackenbush _Source- Metro Nashville PD

Melton
asked the driver, 26-year-old Katie Quackenbush, to move the vehicle.
The two then began arguing and yelling at each other.

Melton said
he walked back to where he was sleeping when police say Quackenbush got
out of the SUV armed and fired two shots at Melton.